美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-25

1. An Ohio medical examiner has ruled that the body found yesterday in a wooded area is that of Jessie Davis, a pregnant mother who disappeared about ten days ago. Davis's boyfriend Bobby Cutts Junior has been arrested and will be arraign¹ed Monday on two counts of murder.

2. The man known as "Chemical Ali" after a 1980s crackdown killed 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq has been sentenced by a Baghdad judge to death by hanging. Ali Hassan al-Majid is Saddam Hussein's cousin.

3. After a decade of waiting in the wings, Treasury³ Secretary Gordon Brown has replaced British Prime Minister Tony Blair as leader of the governing Labor⁴ Party. A handover comes just days before Brown will take over as Britain's new Prime Minister.

4. Call it a giant kiss-off. Thousands of people lock lips during the Glastonbury music festival in England to try to break the world record for simultaneous mass kissing. We don't know yet if they succeeded.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. arraign: [transitive]
law to make someone come to court to hear what their crime is

2. wait in the wings:
ready to do something or be used when the time is right

3. treasury:
a government department that controls the money that the country collects and spends

1 arraign   

v.提讯；控告

参考例句：

• She was arraigned today on charges of assault and kidnapping.她今天因被控人身侵犯和绑架而受到提审。
• He was arraigned for criminally abetting a traitor.他因怂恿他人叛国而受到传讯。

2 arraigned   

v.告发( arraign的过去式和过去分词 )；控告；传讯；指责

参考例句：

• He was arraigned for murder. 他因谋杀罪而被提讯。
• She was arraigned for high treason. 她被控叛国罪。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3 treasury   

n.宝库；国库，金库；文库

参考例句：

• The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
• This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。

4 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。